“Why do you want somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing?” Woodward asked of Trump’s Cabinet nominees.
“He’s trying to recreate the imperial presidency. He’s trying to say ‘I can do whatever I want, it’s up to me alone.’”—both former armed forces veterans—Woodward said Trump’s “goal” was choosing officials who will allow him to consolidate power.
Some observers have criticized the qualifications of Hegseth, until recently a Fox News host, and Gabbard, a newly christened Republican who served eight years in Congress as a Democrat, as inadequate for the jobs to which they’ve been nominated.“There are all kinds of people with various political persuasions who have enough experience to run the Pentagon but he picked someone who isn’t even near it,” he told Psaki.
“Check engine light has just gone off and we’ve pulled in to the wrong store. It makes no sense and it is a form of giving his middle finger to the American people.”
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